At 8:35 AM +0100 8/8/06, Stroller wrote: >It is quite clear that you have some personal agenda that leads you >to fear-monger over this issue. >Please stop spouting this nonsense unless you are prepared to back >it up with facts. This is an astoundingly rude response. I have spent some time this morning looking this up on the internet (I don't have an OEM copy of Windows to see its license). It seems very clear that in the US (not in the EU) it is not legal to transfer an OEM copy of Windows to a machine other than the one on which it shipped. It also appears that lots of people do it. But you DO have to agree to the license terms when you install an OS. The original poster did not ask if he could get by with doing it. And he did not ask if was a law that people agree with, and he did not ask whether the law doesn't apply in cases where you don't like the company the law benefits. The question was whether it was legal. What "facts" are you wanting Mr. Ameeti to come up with? What contrary facts are you offering besides the "fact" that you don't like Microsoft and the "fact" that you can probably get by with using an OEM disk on a non-original computer? Daly ----------------------